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The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.

Bernard Crick

Individualism and Economic Order and many other works, which is, to put it briefly, the whole of laisser-faire economic theory, then plainly man as such a programmed predator has very little interest in being fraternal, or very little chance.
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Economic Individualism Programmed Such Theory
Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.
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Challenges Ideological Political Rule Thinking
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Affair Democracy World
Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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Autocracy Totalitarianism
The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.
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Groups Method Tyrants
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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Boredom Enemy Men
The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
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Condescension Men Praise
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factory Living Workers Working
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty Danger Desire
To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
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Derivatives Doctrine Social
The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Honour Politician Pride Use
The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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Consistency Ideas Skills
Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.
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Demand Fundamentals Problem
Free men stick their necks out.
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Free Men Neck Sticks
If, of course, one builds into the concept of an ‘individual’ all that Professor Hayek does in his Road To Serfdom.
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Builds Men Order Professor
In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of ‘reason’ as single sources of authority.
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Firsts Real Reason

The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.

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